19-year-old boy found murdered in Jagti, accused held: Jammu Police

JAMMU, 30 November 2023: The murder case of a 19-year-old boy was solved by Police Station Domana in Jammu and one accused was arrested on Thursday.

On 29/11/2023 at around 1315 hrs One Parhald singh informed through PCR that his son Raghav Jamwal @ raghu R/O Nardani Raipur Bantalab aged around 19, has been Kidnapped by unknown person.
Raghav went to Janipur for computer training, but didn’t reach there.

On this immediately Police parties from PP Chinore and PS Domana were fanned out in the area and came to know that Raghav has not come to the Computer training centre at Janipur. FIR no 355/2023 u/s 363 was registered in concerned police station and SP Rural and SDPO Domana were directed to personally supervise the search conducted by police parties.

Police through human and technical intelligence was able to zero in on the kidnapper.
After hectic efforts, the kidnapper was traced out from his rented accommodation at Patoli during the intervening night and mobile phone of the victim was recovered from his possession which he has been using to make ransom calls.
The accused is identified as Satinder Kumar S/o Chunni Lal Age-23 years R/o Main Bazar Kishtwar, presently at Patoli. He was acting alone in this crime.

The body of the deceased Raghav Jamwal @ raghu was recovered on the disclosure of accused from a jungle area adjoining Raipur Khari-Jagti link road where there is no habitation.The accused admitted to killing the victim Raghav with stone hit on his head at around 1045-1100 am on 29/11/2023

The accused was known to victim for the past 4-5 years. After conducting necessary legal formalities the police shifted the dead body to GMC,Jammu for conducting postmortem.

Further investigation to unravel the circumstances leading to the crime is going on.